Dana Rohrabacher: “Well, next week the House, this House, the body of the House of Representatives, will vote on a bill that will determine…”

“Well, next week the House, this House, the body of the House of Representatives, will vote on a bill that will determine America's basic law on technology for the 21st century. In a quiet, almost stealth maneuver, major multinational corporations are trying to slide through this Congress legislation which will gut America's patent system. My colleagues heard me correctly. It will gut America's patent system. America has had the strongest patent system in the world. That is why we have the strongest economy of the world and our people have enjoyed opportunities and freedom like no other people in the world. And it is now under attack. America has had this strong patent protection in place since the founding of our country. It is in our Constitution. If this dismantling of America's patent protection proceeds, it will lead to an historic rip-off of America's technology. I say historic because it will lead to an end of America's preeminence in the arena of technology.”